Cap_Ironman Weekly News, Week Ending 12 February 2012

[muccamukk]

Hello and welcome to the weekly cap_ironman/cap_ironman newsletter.

A few comm-related reminders:
1. If you signed up to create art for the Cap/Iron Man Reverse Bang, your drafts are due one week from today. I've already received some gorgeous art, and look forward to more in the near future.
2. This comm has a Spamming Policy in place to keep one user from flooding out the rest. I hope everyone will familiarise themselves with it.
3. Valentine's Day is coming up. Anyone what to have a themed prompt fest? Other ideas?

Slowish week from comics news (especially if you're pretending AvX doesn't exist). Bendis, Bagley & Brevoort did another interview about Avengers Assemble. If Steve Rogers beat up and tied to a chair is your thing (and I don't see why it wouldn't be), do take a look at this preview for Avengers #22.

Otherwise it's all be merchandising, merchandising and more merchandising. There's a rather nice Harley Davidson desktop image of the movie team, some Halloween costumes that are less totally horrible than Marvel's past efforts in this area (and Natasha actually gets one!), and odd little glowy signs things. If you're looking for a laugh, do check out Chris Sims write up of this year's superhero Valentine Cards.

Art
tripperfunster drew Steve/Tony Art
tripperfunster drew Smoochy Boys
tripperfunster drew One Night at the Mansion

Fic
1_with_russia wrote Searching
metaallu wrote Wherein Steve Wears Panties
celli wrote The Case of the Senator's Son
tsukinofaerii wrote Helpful Distractions
ruby_crowned wrote Taking Notice
paxieamor wrote In Another's Eyes: Chapters One, Two, Three, Four, Five
miss_mandy07 wrote Between the Lines of Fear and Blame
tastingcyanide wrote Hardwire: Part One
sororexitium wrote The Easiest Wedding in Superhero History
caitri wrote What Do You See?
snowynight wrote Recovery
tsukinofaerii wrote Enduring the Interminable Tribulations of Friendship, the Invasion of a Foreign Establishment and an Unforeseen Rival: a Bystander's Perspective
rosieknight wrote Coda
kaitlia777 wrote One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human: Part One
tsukinofaerii wrote Dilemmas on the Occasion of Invitations of an Enticing Nature, Distressingly Present Attributes, the Presence of Choirs of What are Most Definitely Not Angels, and Obligations to Souls As-Yet Unaccounted For but Never to be Forgotten: Chapters The First, The Second
tardiscrash wrote Never Send a Man to Do a Robot's Job
darklumi wrote At the Corner of Henry and Montague Street
snowynight wrote Snow and Metal
shinodabear wrote Self Made Man

Other Stuff
ymfaery made a DW feed for AO3 "Marvel Avengers Movie Universe"
valtyr posted part of an interview regarding shippiness in the Avengers Assemble comic
gogglehead84 posted a scan of Cyborg Steve vs. Mutie Tony from X-Factor #231
swing_set13 made a Masterlist of Steve/Tony AUs
arachnes_web started a discussion about Steve/Tony action figures and merchandise
tsubasalove87 asked about a canon date for Tony's birthday
thornsilver put together a (sort of) Avengers Recs Post

Finally, if you're a new or recent member, hello and welcome! Our rules are here, and in the profile; this includes our warnings policy, so please read. If you're interested in the ship, you may want to read the Ship Manifesto, and consult the list of Slashy Moments (Now at one hundred and fifty moments). If you're planning to write for the comm, there are some tips on writing the pairing here, and the Avengers in general here; if you're having trouble finding a beta, or would like to offer your services as a beta, our beta list is here. If you're looking for the comm archive, it's Tales of Suspense, and it's automated - you can create an account and upload your fic. If you're looking for a particular story, why not try cap_im_finders? If you have any questions, you can comment here or PM a mod, that's me, garrideb and valtyr.

And feel free to post on-topic or off-topic stuff in the comments to this post! Just keep it reasonably safe for work, please.

Comments

[arachnes-web.livejournal.com]

In case anyone's interested, Marvel just posted pictures of the Avengers Lego Sets here: http://marvel.com/news/story/18104/first_look_avengers_toys_from_lego

Also, I just wanted to make an offer to the mods- I run the Marvel Stuff (http://fuckyeahmarvelstuff.tumblr.com) blog over at Tumblr, and so I have to keep up with all the merchandising/toys news anyways...if you'd like I could send y'all a PM on Saturdays with relevant movie toy links for the newsletter.

[muccamukk]

I saw those! So cute.

I really appreciate the offer, but probably wouldn't use it. I go through all the news sites obsessively a couple times a week, anyway. I don't always include toy stuff, usually only when it's a slow week, or when I think something super cute or slashy.

Maybe one of the other mods would be interested though? It looks like a really well put together tumblr anyway.

[arachnes-web.livejournal.com]

They are cute! Although I was surprised that they did such a giant head for Iron Man, rather than do separate heads like Minimates.

And thank you! ^///^ I try to keep it organized and straight forward...and reign in my inner fangirl's desire to post nothing but Captain America and Iron Man stuff. If any of the other mods are interested, or maybe as we get closer to the release date, if y'all are interested just shoot me a PM. :D

[muccamukk]

I'm too busy being charmed by Loki's helmet. Any idea when these things are coming out so I can buy them?

oh, should mention I guess: SPOILERS in the text.

[arachnes-web.livejournal.com]

His helmet is all sorts of adorable, but I think I'm in love with Natasha's figure. I love how they did her hair. :D And yeah SPOILERS for the article- I didn't bother to read it until just now, but jeeze Marvel!.

If anyone wants to see the Lego pics without fear of spoilers: http://marvel.com/images/gallery/story/18104/images_from_first_look_avengers_toys_from_lego

[valtyr]

Awesome, I've followed it with the cap-ironman Tumblr so I can reblog relevant stuff. Thanks very much for letting us know!

[arachnes-web.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the follow! I've been doing some tag-cleaning today and added one for all the movie merchandise: http://fuckyeahmarvelstuff.tumblr.com/tagged/Avengers-movie

(And it's the least I could do- I'm not an artist or much of an author, but I like being able to contribute something to this wonderful community!) ^^

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

OMG NATASHA'S COSTUME HAS PANTS.

PANTS, Y'ALL.

PANTS.

And also, the write-up for the Valentines are hilarious. As a grown woman who bought a mailbox!Cap set and a regular Avengers set and am even now trying to make myself give them to people (like my coworkers are going to be surprised at this point, pfft) they're pretty much spot-on.

I've also decided that I've been spoiled for desktop wallpaper. The official stuff just doesn't work for me. Siiiiigh.

Finally, my fic title takes up two lines in wide-screen format. So proud. :') No, really, I worked hard to make a title that ridiculously over-the-top and no one will ever make me regret it.

[muccamukk]

I'm pretty impressed. I don't think I've ever seen a Marvel women's costume with pants. Even their female Cap costume had a skirt.

I like the desktop, but have shopped out the HD logo.

Heh. That title is pretty amazing. Like Thre Musketeers chapter titles.

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

I know. It makes me want to go as Natasha next Halloween, just for the Joy of Pants.

Thank you :D I love my titles for that series. AO3 has a 255 limit for titles, and I was genuinely annoyed that I couldn't figure out how to get another 22 characters in there. Next time, AO3. Just you wait. I'm going to break all the tags, mwahaha.

Though I admit, the temptation to fill in the summary with "see title" is difficult to resist. Maybe next fic.